Excerpts from Philipp Kern's message of Mit Jan 12 02:46:24 +0100 2011:
> Hi,
>
> am Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:53:59AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> > Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> (11/01/2011):
> > > As all my attempts to find someone willing to setup d-i daily builds
> > > on a sparc buildd [1] failed. I'm going to give up now and will not
> > > bother you again until some steps up to do the necessary work or
> > > provide me with buildd access. I added the following note to the d-i
> > > daily builds overview page: Due to the lack of porter and buildd
> > > admin interest there are currently no daily builds for the SPARC
> > > architecture. These builds will be reenable as soon as someone finds
> > > the time to do the necessary buildd setup.
> > >
> > > I would also be willing to do the neccessary setup myself if someone
> > > provides me with the necessary access to a sparc buildd.
> >
> > So, again, it's not about lack of interest, it's about lack of
> > time.
As Cyril Brulebois was the only one to even answer, I inferred that the other
persons behind sparc@b.d.o and all the subscribers on debian-sparc
don't seem to be interested. My bad. After having more information I
have now reworded the text to:
Due to the lack of buildd suitable buildd machine there are currently no daily
builds for the SPARC architecture. These builds will be reenabled as soon as
as a suitable machine is available.
It was never my intention to offend anyone or to spread "FUD". Sorry
if you got this impression.
> >
> > Also, you could have pinged debian-wb-team@. I believe aba did most of
> > the d-i autobuilding stuff, so he might have some clue to share. I've
> > added this list to the loop.
I was not aware that the right contact point for this kind of question
would be debian-wb-team@l.d.o. I thought that the correct contact
point would be the sparc buildd admins because the setup needs access
to the buildd and I expected that the persons having this kind of
access to be the buildd admins. I thought that the wb-team is involved
with managing the wb database which is not used for the d-i daily
builds.
>
> and I did tell on #d-boot the following on Nov 13 2010:
>
> [...]
> 15:27 < trave11er> ok, we didn't get any reply from stappers, so sparc dailies still have the old kernels, afaict
> [...]
> 15:31 < otavio> trave11er: buildd people were going to put sparc into it
> 15:31 < otavio> trave11er: dunno if it has been done
> 15:31 < otavio> adsb: ^?
> [...]
> 15:33 < phil> otavio: "were going to" is quite untrue. There still isn't a bug
> report, and I did report the result of my investigation, i.e. there's no space
> on the only LVMed sparc buildd we have.
> 15:37 < otavio> phil: I didn't recall about the space issue
> 15:37 < otavio> phil: indeed
>
> So meh, whatever. To my knowledge that's still true. We currently don't have
> the capacities and we admitted that. Furthermore not asking -wb-team might
> not give you answers, indeed. Sorry if I missed something along the
> way.
Sorry that I missed this along the way. This is the first time I hear
of the space issue.
IMHO IRC is not a good medium to communicate important information to a
team. It's to easy to forget something and the information never
reaches all the involved persons. As I'm very rarely on IRC I missed
this communication.
Gaudenz
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